Coronavirus latest: Japan calls for solidarity in Covid-19 fight as global deaths near 1 million

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Saturday called for world solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and said he would work ensure the universal distribution of vaccines, as the World Health Organization said the global death toll looked set to reach 1 million by next week.“The novel coronavirus disease has pulled us into an unprecedented crisis, which in turn has brought the international community back to cooperation from its tendencies towards division and isolation,”…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3103151/coronavirus-latest-japan-calls-solidarity-covid-19-fight-global